USS Abraham Lincoln returns to Indo-Pacific after seven-month Middle East deployment, making logistics stop in Guam

USS Abraham Lincoln arrived in Guam on September 19 for a logistics stop after nearly seven months of operations in the U.S. Central Command area. The Nimitz-class carrier returned with Carrier Air Wing 9, Destroyer Squadron 21, and the destroyer USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. as Carrier Strike Group 3 resumed activity under the Seventh Fleet. The visit marked the group's first return to American territory in nine months and provided sailors limited on-base liberty. Guam's command, replenishment, and maintenance infrastructure supports the strike group's renewed routine operations with allies and partners across the western Pacific.